Pelosi is so out of it she is running in circles.
lol
It was reported on another thread that she had two reasons why we shouldn't attack Saddam.
1. There is no proof that he has weapons of mass distruction.
2. We must not put our troops in harms way because Saddam will use weapons of mass didtruction on them and cause a lot of casualties.
I'm betting that good ole Dubya is going to call their bluff, and lay out a royal flush on national TV.
Haven't they learned by now that George W. Bush is a very cool and cagey cat?
I think we know the answer to that one....
BTW, I have issued the latest edict to our household: Heinz products are no longer allowed. Pity, I kind of enjoyed the mesquite flavored ketchup.
The implication is obvious: the same thing the former Democratic president did: NOTHING.
The sad thing is that their opposition to the war appeals to the lowest of human qualities: laziness, selfishness and avoidance of reality (aka wishful thinking).
We are at war with the Islamists since the horror of 9/11, and we have been at war with their main government sponsor, Iraq, since 1991.
Shirking from confrontation will only insure our inevitable destruction, but Daschle and company, so totally bereft of anything resembling integrity, care not about anything other than political power, and would gladly enslave our children and capitulate to dictators to achieve that end. Perhaps they understand Saddam far better than we think.
The Dems know that there is no such proof, so there's no disadvantage to saying this. They know Bush has no ace to lay out.
I really wish President Bush would offer some proof- just to embarass the Dimocrats that have opposed the war up to now!
I really wish President Bush would offer some proof- just to embarass the Dimocrats that have opposed the war up to now!
WASHINGTON, Jan. 27 — On the eve of President Bush’s State of the Union address, congressional Democratic leaders challenged the president to show “proof to the world” that Iraq has weapons of mass destruction.
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Daschle ping
(Please Freepmail me if you want on/off my Daschle ping.)
Daschle & Pelosi don't care if intelligence sources are compromised; they don't care if operatives and sources die. It doesn't serve their agenda...
By revealing the photos, Kennedy let the Soviets know the exact limits of our photo recon capability. This was a major deal at the time, since this capability was top secret in the extreme.
Indian firm’s link with Iraqi ministry revealed
Ex-NEC official’s statement to DRI: He was hosted by Saddam ministry, Iraqis visited Chennai plant; Iraq, NEC deny contact Shishir Gupta
NEW DELHI: Chief UN Weapons Inspector Hans Blix who has been scanning the backyards of Baghdad can perhaps pick up some clues here.
A Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) probe into the Delhi-based NEC Engineers Pvt Ltd indicates that the company, under the directions of Iraq’s Ministry of Military Industries, may have helped Saddam Hussein manufacture precursors for weapons of mass destruction (WMD).
The statement made by former general manager (projects) of the NEC, N. Katturajan, under Section 108 of the Customs Act, 1962 to the DRI, is explosive. He names an Iraqi official Abdul Baghi as the Director General of the Al Rashid Chlorate plant, a project that was run by Saddam’s Ministry of Military Industries. Katturajan, in the statement to DRI on May 24, 2002, claims knowledge that the Al Rashid plant was used for making sodium chlorate and sodium perchlorate, chemical precursors for making rocket-propellant ammonium perchlorate that is used as missile fuel. Katturajan claims that the missile fuel facility was barely 500 metres from the Al Rashid facility.
According to the former NEC official, he was involved with rebuilding the chlorine plant at Fallujah, 58 km from Baghdad, and claims that the overall charge of the facility was with General (Dr) Khazi Fascil.
In his statement, Katturajan names one Shahab as secretary to the Ministry of Military Industries and the ‘‘total controller and advisor for both (Al Rashid and Fallujah) the projects.’’ He claims to have gone to Iraq in July 1999 by road via Jordan and being taken to Hotel Al Sadeer in Baghdad, where his boarding and lodging were taken care of by the Iraqi Ministry for Military Industries.
Katturajan claims that he went to Iraq four times for NEC work and stayed there for three-to-four months in each visit. However, NEC has taken a stand (since Tony Blair went on record on Sept 24, 2002 that NEC illicitly helped Iraq’s WMD programme) that its export operations are overboard and that it was not supplying spherical aluminum powder to Iraq but was only exporting it to Jordan.
Iraq too has denied receiving any material from the Indian company. ‘‘Iraq did not not receive any material. There is no proof in that regard,’’ Iraq’s ambassador Saleh Mukhtar told reporters on Saturday. He claimed ‘‘the company had legally exported certain material to the UAE and Jordan.’’
Katturajan’s statement to DRI has another startling revelation that four Iraqi officials visited chemical factories in Chennai along with then NEC Director Hansraj Shiv in July/August 1998.
At that time, Katturajan was working with a chlorate manufacturing company in Pondicherry and joined NEC in July 1999. He now runs a chemical engineering consultancy firm in Pondicherry. According to him, the Al Rashid plant was commissioned in November 1999 and Fallujah chlorine facility in August 2000 with NEC’s help. At the same time, the former NEC official statement makes it clear that he did not visit the missile fuel manufacturing facility near the Al Rashid plant.
He says Hansraj Shiv asked him not to go to the facility as ‘‘Iraqi officials wanted free technology from us and that he (Hansraj Shiv) is there in Iraq for earning money and not free services.’’ The DRI is now on the look-out for Hansraj Shiv and his son Siddarth Hans.
DRI reports show influential Jordan national Mohammed El-Khatib and son Abu Tariq were helping NEC. According to Katturajan, NEC was operating through a front company, Al Najah General Trading Company, at Alibaba Square in Baghdad.
He claims Iraqi directors Muntasir Awni and Ammar Auni handled NEC’s operations in Baghdad. NEC is accused of exporting 11 consignments of sensitive materials including spherical aluminum powder, titanium vessels and anodes between Sept 1998 and Feb 2001 in contravention of Indian export laws.
On January 13, 2003, NEC’s technical director R.C.P. Choudhary surrendered before a local court after Additional Sessions Judge Manju Goel rejected his anticipatory bail application on December 16, 2002. Choudhary is currently in judicial custody.
Two other NEC officials, general manager (operations) Rajiv Dheer and its Chennai representative Anna Kumar, were also arrested but are currently on bail.
NEC’s involvement with Baghdad may have dented the Indian pride on its commitment to non-proliferation, but it has also spurred New Delhi to enforce tighter export control regimes.
Under Indian law, exports of sensitive materials are governed by SCOMET (Special Chemical Organism Materials Equipment and Technologies) provisions of Exim Policy 1997-2002. In March 2001, New Delhi received intelligence that NEC was supplying dual-use items to Iraq by showing exports to Jordan. —IE